Indian Friends: In Land of Opportunity, Joblessness Frustrates Newcomers
Lacking work visas, the Indian spouses of high-tech employees in Silicon Valley band together for support in adapting to more dependent roles.
Every afternoon, Rashmi Chethan and her female Indian friends gather to drink chai, stroll around their sprawling San Jose apartment complex and console each other over their stalled careers.The group includes doctors, lawyers, computer scientists and a nuclear engineer. Their husbands are computer stars in the Silicon Valley, programming and design whizzes granted special high-tech visas that allow them to work in laboratories, software mills and Internet shops for up to six years. But...
Indian Friends: The Economic Times:
Straight Answers
G R Gupta President, North Indian Friends Association Gujarat On the work being done by the association: What was the idea behind setting up the North Indian Friends Association in Gujarat? The North Indian Friends Association was established in 1988 with the purpose of providing a platform where people from states like Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttaranchal, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh could meet and interact with each other. There are around seven lakh North Indians...
Indian Friends: Tocci will always reach out to help
Having made a sentimental journey to Arizona to see old Mexican and Indian friends, I met a woman by the name of Peg. I learned that she was from the Midwest and that her husband was a farmer who lost the farm paying off doctor bills, and it put them on the road to eke out a life making and selling lawn ornaments for the flea markets. Unfolding before me was the real Grapes of Wrath. I said, "Listen, this is embarrassing for Americans, don't you get food stamps or Social...
Indian Friends: The News (Nigeria) - AAGM:
`I Am Clean' - Adamu Bello
Adamu Bello, Minister of Agriculture on 17 August spoke with journalists on the flurry of allegation against him.There are petitions by members of Cocoa Farmer Association of Nigeria, CFAN, against you. Apart from mis appropriation of funds, they alleged that your awarded contracts for the supply of fertilizer to yourself using your Indian friends as fronts. And the fertilizer supplied are said to be sub-standard and fake. How true is this, and what was your guiding principle in the award...
Indian Friends: The Independent: PREVIEWS: Let's all gather round the tabla
Those who had the good fortune to be present at guitarist John McLaughlin's Shakti bash with his Indian friends at the Royal Festival Hall two months ago will already be familiar with part of the line-up for Tiranga. Ustad Zakir Hussain's volcanic tabla-playing and Vidhwan U Shrinavas's exploits on the electric mandolin were the high points in Shakti, and are sure to galvanise the event. But what is Tiranga? The word itself means "three...